Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-12-01
A SECOND ES0CH ARDEN.
Prominent ban Disappears and After
Twenty Years Returns to Find His Wife Mar
ried to Another Man.

Prominent ban Disappears, and After
Twenty Years Returns to Find His Wife Mar
ried to Another Man.
ohio State Journal,
In 1856 Cloyce Wilson was one of the
most popular and best known politicians
in Hapcock County, Ohio, and was elected
TO the Office of Sheriff in that year,
place which he filed for one term, and,
declining denomination, retired from
the office followed by the best wishes of
his friends regardless of party. He was
a man of family, had a pleasant home
and was possessed of some property, and
his only falling was q fondness for the
seductive game of "poker," vice which
he cultivated with considerable assidu-
ity.
| Without word of warning one day in
December, 1862 Cloyce Wilson disap-
peared as suddenly and as mysteriously
as though the ground had opened and
swallowed him up and closed again, leav-
ing no sign by which his fate could be as
certained. His wife and friends set ON
foot Investigations and a search was in
stituted but nothing concerning his
whereabouts was ever obtained and his
deserted wife and children united with
his fellow-citizens in the conclusion that
| he had been murdered for a sum of mon
ely he was known TO possess.
Time passed on, and Findlay people,
who at that period occasionally wandered
beyond the confines of Hancock County,
came back with stories that Cloyce Viii
| sol. had been killed in card-room at
Springfield: others saw him in the Wild
West and some pretended to have met
him in the Sunny Southland, but not
much credence was given these rumors
| by his deserted wife who firmly belived
him dead.
In June, 1875, Mrs. Wilson was startled
by receiving a letter from her husband
she had married again in the interim
saying he would be home Oh certain
| Saturday night, but if he failed to come
at that time not to be uneasy about him
as he would be home few days later.
The letter contained sothing further,
Wilson saying nothing of why he had
/ gone away so uncerimoniOusly and max
! ing no excuse for his conduct. The feel
| ings Of the poor woman, with q second
edition of "Enoch Arden on ner hands,
can be imagined but not described.
! Fortunately for all concerned Wilson
| did not put in an appearance on the date
| he was billed for, and nothing more was
heard Of him. Mrs. Wilson, now Mrs.
! Ii yatt, removed 20 Cleveland, and her two
daughters, grown to womanhood, married
well and set up establishments OF their
own, with only hazy recollectiOns of their
/ father
| Interest in the whole affair died out,
| and with the removal of Wilson's former
| wife 70 Cleveland, all the actors in the
drama were forgotten until yesterday,
when Jay Merkle, well-known merchant
| of this city, met a gentleman who APP
preached him With number of questions
concerning Findlay and the people who
were prominent here along in the six.
ties" and ended by asking for informa-
ton regarding Cloyce Wilson, and what
had become OF his family, particularly
his daughters. Mr.. Markle answered all
the strangers inquiries and then truned
interviewer himself, and was lot long in
discovering that he vas face TO face with
| Cloyce Wilson, fact the gentleman &C
| knuwledged when pressed with such an
inquiry He would not say anything of
himself; why he had gone away or any
thing of how he had passed the nearly
score of years since he shook the dust of
Findlay from his feet. He was well
dressed and wore nearly white Burnside
whiskers, style lie affected when Sheriff
of this county.
Having satisfied himself az to the mat
ter in which he seemed so deeply inter
ested the former Sheriff took the first
train and lsft town as nysteriousiy as
when ne had babe the city goodbye IN
December, 1869. Whether he went to
Cleveland TO see his former wife and
children or returned to the unknown
world in which be hes been hidden this
deponent saith not, but taking into con-
siderali0n the fact that no domestic, so
cial or business reason mIelled him TO
take the step he did, and his return to
his old haunts after the lapse Of these
years, the case il certainly one OF the
querest ia this queer world Of ours
". x. Vanderbilt mas complete col
lection Of Louis QuatoTxe furniture, pur-
chased at the sale OF the private effects
OF the late King Ludgwig, Of Bavaria.
william ID. Howells has lost caste In
Boston through his en6eavoTs in benali
J of the Chicago anarchists.